Top 100 Meaning To Quotes
#1. It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further ...
Pablo Picasso
#2. No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
Arthur W. Pink
#3. When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life
Anubhav Mishra
#4. God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
#5. This ancient affirmation of Scripture and the Christian tradition provides a teleological hope and direction that gives meaning to life now and moves us toward the future with faith and confidence in God's redemptive purpose and power.
Cynthia Peters Anderson
#6. Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive.
Dalai Lama
#7. A life of devotion to one's passion gives meaning to life.
Avijeet Das
#8. The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. You always knew when Seve walked in a room even if you had your back to him. He oozed charisma and brought a whole new meaning to aura.
Lee Westwood
#10. There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
John F. Kennedy
#11. The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.
Jonathan Goldman
#12. Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life.
Mollie Marti
#13. You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.
Donald Miller
#14. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-Rast
#15. There's no meaning to a flower unless it blooms.
Ino
#16. If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.
Richard Gere
#17. We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.
Dennis Littky
#18. 'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.
Joshua Cohen
#19. You have stopped the arrow of time ...
There's no meaning to this rhyme ...
Because my song will never mean as much as the one..
He once sang..
For you, yes, you ...
Megan McCafferty
#20. Nobel intentions have no real meaning to them if you don't do it solely for you. Do it to satisfy your soul, not theirs. Don't do it in hope that it earns you a reward at the end, instead let the reward be the beauty created as a result of your actions.
Kendal Rob
#21. We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
John Keats
#22. Many people look for the meaning of existence and for the meaning of living, when looking for the experiences of just being alive already gives meaning to existence.
Kcat Yarza
#23. Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.
Colin Dickey
#24. There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.
John H. Groberg
#25. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace
#26. The accepted etymology of the word religion was that it came from religere, meaning "to bind together," but Cicero had said its true root was relegere, "to reread." The truth was, she liked both answers.
James S.A. Corey
#27. As part of his life-saving therapy with suicidal patients and his own experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankl learned there are three things that give meaning to life: first, a project; second, a significant relationship; and third, a redemptive view of suffering.
Jeff Goins
#28. Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
Simon Mainwaring
#29. The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.
Mike Mullane
#30. They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the term 'conviction politician'.
Margaret Thatcher
#31. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
#32. You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. I wanted to develop research that explained the anatomy of connection. Studying connection
Brene Brown
#34. I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#35. It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#36. When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."
Bruce Springsteen
#37. More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.
Ralph Lauren
#38. We are the only life form that can bring a purpose to our lives. It doesn't make sense to strive and strive and then die without any meaning to it.
Jo Maeder
#39. Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.
Charles Stross
#40. I have devoted a whole book (Unweaving the Rainbow) to ultimate meaning, to the poetry of science, and to rebutting, specifically and at length, the charge of nihilistic negativity, so I shall restrain myself here.
Richard Dawkins
#41. The problem that we are facing in the church today is that we have so many Christians who have made a decision to believe in Jesus but not a commitment to follow Him. We have people who are planning to, meaning to, trying to, wanting to, going to, we just don't have people who are doing it.
Tyler Edwards
#42. To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#43. Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
Cynthia Kenyon
#44. They didn't agree on everything. They didn't share all the same opinions. In fact, there was enormous scope for disagreement, argument, even quarrels. But where it mattered - where the wellsprings of their personalities rose and gave meaning to their lives - they were the same.
David Weber
#45. To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning
#46. Life and death are one. You have life, and life is death. Without death there is no meaning to life. Without life there is no death. Be content with what you have.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#47. The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
Norman Borlaug
#48. Marion's view allowed her experience with cancer to be full of meaning, to be replete with possibility, and it enabled Death to bring her more deeply into Life. She got the initiation.
Stephen Cope
#49. To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
Albert Camus
#50. Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
Lynette Gould
#51. God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Thomas Carlyle
#52. I guess I liked the idea that ... well, that there might be some kind of larger meaning to life or whatever. My mother was into that. She had a nonreligious spiritual side to her, if that makes any sense. She believed in the idea of fate and destiny. An interconnectedness and purpose in life.
Jessica Park
#53. Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same.
Bob Harris
#54. We add value to our lives by giving without expectations; we add meaning to our lives by loving unconditionally.
Debasish Mridha
#55. I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
Toni Cade Bambara
#56. God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
Bob Goff
#57. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskey
#58. I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
May Sarton
#59. Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
Tino Sehgal
#61. Living life as only half humans until one day we meet a woman who completes us, who gives meaning to our pathetic existence and makes it worthwhile, enriching it with her laugh, with her smell, and the taste of her body. Days
Mia Asher
#62. Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
Henry Samueli
#63. Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.
Richard Paul Evans
#64. So what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same,
Veronica Roth
#65. Why do you write meaningless philosophy?" you asked.
"Because it gives meaning to life," I whispered with deep empathy.
Debasish Mridha
#66. In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#67. About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.
Nate Berkus
#68. Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.
Hina Hashmi
#69. Maybe comfort exists in believing there is order in the world, even when someone is making the most disorderly decision we know: running toward death instead of away from it.
In their absence, we're left trying to pin meaning to air.
Kate Fagan
#70. Hopefully, your marriage will bring added dimensions to love. Hopefully, your unique love will bring new meaning to all our lives. That success cannot be hidden. Good improves love. Evil poisons love. Nothing proves this more dramatically than how we treat our loved ones.
pg 63
Michael Ben Zehabe
#71. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.
Robin Hobb
#72. A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
Karen Armstrong
#73. Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself.
Jay Woodman
#74. The lily and the poem made it all real for me; now I knew my memories would stay with me forever. I held the lily and the poem to my heart, and concluded that my life was not a series of sand castles. There was meaning to life, and precious memories even amidst the sadness.
Sook Nyul Choi
#75. It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.
Albert Einstein
#76. Even if you don't believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
Michael Crichton
#77. One of the things you'll discover ... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.
Erwin McManus
#78. The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.
John Kessel
#79. This is so humiliating," I muttered as Cassidy wiggled out of her bra. "Well, it brings new meaning to the phrase 'booby trap,'" she teased, and we both laughed, a situation made infinitely more interesting due to the fact that she was topless.
Robyn Schneider
#80. Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process - nothing more?
Wes Moore
#81. Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Pope John Paul II
#82. She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness, alone.
Virginia Woolf
#83. Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
Tobias Wolff
#84. Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.
(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
John Ralston Saul
#86. Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.
Charlie Sheen
#87. The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#88. Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it."
-from "Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami
#89. God's friendship gave such a value and meaning to his life that he had something to sing about.
Vishal Mangalwadi
#90. The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#91. Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.
Nikki Rowe
#92. My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
Edvard Munch
#93. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
E.B. White
#94. The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.
James F. Cooper
#95. There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
Albert Camus
#96. I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the colors, I don't need to be guided by words. I draw them and the meaning comes after. Every time we would start a new sequence we would change everything.
Alex Abreu
#97. There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#99. I did as he asked without meaning to. I was still trying to accept that the first time wasn't a fluke - Dylan sucked in bed. Either he didn't get the concept of satisfying a woman, or he didn't care.
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#100. The word 'religion' takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning 'to bind,' which in turn means 'to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain.
Annie Laurie Gaylor
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